Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...

Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what Linux really thinks about open source, Windows, Macs ...

François, our guests will be here soon. What are you doing? Quoi? You are learning a language for this issue's theme? You might have picked a better time to study, mon ami, but I applaud you ...

Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

Linux: If you want to easily type non-ASCII characters that likely aren't already on your keyboard (e.g. ™, µ, ½) and don't want to constantly refer to character selector apps such as kcharselect, you ...

Demand Peripherals, Inc., makes an FPGA-based robot controller that gives a robot or other industrial control systems the high I/O pin count and precise timing that a Linux laptop or single-board ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

If you have ever copied or opened a Unix file in the Windows Notepad, you would have seen that the result is very ugly as all of the text appears as a mess on one line as Notepad does not recognize ...